Win2K.Inta is the first virus to infect Windows 2000. Windows 2000 is
the new upcoming operating system from Microsoft, due to be released
later this year.
Win2K.Inta appears to be written by the 29A virus group. It operates
only under current beta versions of Windows 2000 and is not designed
to operate at all under older versions of Windows.
F-Secure has received no reports of this virus being in the wild, and
it is not considered a big threat. The most important feature of the
virus is capability to spread under the new operating system.
Win2K.Inta works by infecting program files and replicates from a
computer to another when these files are exchanged. Infected files do
not grow in size. The virus infects files with these extensions: EXE,
COM, DLL, ACM, AX, CNV, CPL, DRV, EXE, MPD, OCX, PCI, SCR, SYS, TSP,
TLB, VWP, WPC and MSI. This list includes several classes of programs
that were not suspectible to virus infection before. For example, this
virus will analyse Microsoft Windows Installer files (MSI files), scan
them for embedded programs and infect them.
The virus contains this text string, which is never displayed:
